EEB Undergraduate Research Fair
Every year, EEB498Y1Y students present their research projects at the EEB Undergraduate Research Fair. We welcome you to attend and discuss science with the student presenters! The fair is a great way to experience the exciting undergraduate research in EEB, to hear about new scientific discoveries made by students, and interact with undergraduates and peers.
2025 Research Fair
Date: Friday, April 4, 2025
Time: 2:00PM – 4:00PM
Location: Hallways outside ESC 2050 & ESC 3055
For the best event experience, see the Program Guide, which contains the event schedule, research abstracts, and list of student participants, etc.
Cheers to all the amazing students who presented their research at the EEB Undergraduate Research Fair! Thank you for all your hard work and resilience! Please give special compliments to the winners of the Corey A. Goldman Prize for Best Research Posters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Category: Global Change
Best Poster: Madeline Ramsden (Supervisor: Donald Jackson)
Honorable Mention: Katie Wang (Supervisor: Shelby Riskin)
Category: Urban Ecology & Species Monitoring
Best Poster: Gabrielle Diez (Supervisor: Shelby Riskin)
Honorable Mention: Kaylie Borntraeger (Supervisor: Don Jackson)
Category: Ecophysiology & Biogeography
Best Poster: Erin Huang (Supervisor: Njal Rollinson)
Honorable Mention: Jack Stoodley (Supervisor: Martin Krkosek)
Category: Behaviour & Species Interactions
Best Poster: Silas Peters (Supervisor: Rosalind Murray)
Honorable Mention: Mia Bantas (Supervisor: Megan Bontrager)
Category: Evolution & Phylogenetics
Best Poster: Hudson Wentzell (Supervisor: Belinda Chang)
Honorable Mention: Jamie Chew (Supervisor: Aneil Agrawal)
A special thank you to our panel of judges this year: Adriana Bravo Ordonez, Chelsea Rochman, Matthew Osmond, Micah Freedman, Njal Rollinson, Damian Hernandez, Eric Hagen, Garth Covernton, Mathieu Videlier, and Jessie Wang!
Corey A. Goldman Prize
The students participating in the fair are competing for the Corey A. Goldman Prize for Best Research Poster in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, which recognizes the top students within the department for excellence in their fourth-year independent research projects.
Corey A. Goldman was the EEB Undergraduate Associate Chair from 2006 to 2016 and a course coordinator for introductory biology for over 30 years. In 1995, Corey founded the U of T National Biology Competition and was its director for 25 years. In 2005, Corey created the Faculty of Arts and Science’s First-Year Learning Communities Program (FLC), which helps entering students make a meaningful connection to their university. He has received several awards for his teaching and service to students, including the Faculty’s Outstanding Teaching Award, the U of T Alumni Association’s Joan E. Foley Quality of Student Experience Award, a National Technology Innovation Award, the Province of Ontario’s Leadership in Faculty Teaching (LIFT) Award, and U of T’s highest teaching honour, the President’s Teaching Award.
Archive
2024 EEB Undergraduate Research Fair
See the Program Guide for the 2024 EEB Undergraduate Research Fair. Congratulations to the winners of the Corey A. Goldman Prize for Best Research Posters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology!
Category: Effects of Global Change on Organisms & Ecosystems
Best Poster: Eleanor Hector (Supervisor: Megan Bontrager)
Honorable Mention: Nadine Hamie (Supervisor: Asher Cutter)
Category: Urban Ecology & Ecotoxicology
Best Poster: Kieran Guimond (Supervisor: Shelby Riskin)
Honorable Mention: Elli Hung (Supervisor: Asher Cutter & Chelsea Rochman)
Category: Ecophysiology
Best Poster: Yara Ghabra (Supervisor: Celina Baines)
Honorable Mention: Charlie Olsen (Supervisor: Rowan Sage)
Category: Evolution, Phylogenetics & Systematics
Best Poster: Jaden Tran (Supervisor: Santiago Claramunt)
Honorable Mention: Michaela Riley (Jacqueline Sztepanacz)
A special thank you to our panel of judges this year: Amanda Peake, Athmaja Viswanath, Bianca Sacchi, Luna Taguchi, Mark Hibbins, Mathieu Videlier, Puneeth Deraje and Zoie Diana!
2023 EEB Undergraduate Research Fair
See the Program Guide for the 2023 EEB Undergraduate Research Fair. Congratulations to the winners of the Corey A. Goldman Prize for Best Research Posters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology!
Category: Climate Change, Organisms & EEB Education
Best Poster: Jolie Nguyen (Supervisor: Marie-Josee Fortin)
Honorable Mention: Lilian Chan (Supervisor: Njal Rollinson)
Category: Urban Ecology & Ecotoxicology
Best Poster: Gloria Wang (Supervisor: Don Jackson)
Honorable Mention: Mira Ghosh (Supervisor: Chelsea Rochman)
Category: Ecological Interactions
Best Poster: Katherine Monat (Supervisor: Luke Mahler)
Honorable Mention: Grace Walker-Mitchell (Supervisor: Ben Gilbert)
Category: Evolution, Phylogenetics & Systematics
Best Poster: Hou Wai (Colin) Chiu (Supervisor: Santiago Claramunt)
Honorable Mention: Brenda Li (Supervisor: Nathan Lujan)
Category: Organismal Trait Evolution & Ecology
Best Poster: Daniel Mok (Supervisor: Rowan Sage)
Honorable Mention: Michelle Su (Supervisor: Luke Mahler)
A special thank you to our panel of judges this year: Celina Baines, Megan Bontrager, Alice Fairnie, Ben Gilbert, Mark Hibbins, Nathan Lujan, Matt Osmond, Tomomi Parins-Fukuchi, and Jacqueline Sztepanacz!
2022 EEB Undergraduate Research Fair
See the Program Guide for the 2022 EEB Undergraduate Research Fair. Congratulations to the winners of the Corey A. Goldman Prize for Best Research Posters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology!
Category: Conservation Assessment & Strategies
Best Poster: Henry James (Supervisor: Marie-Josee Fortin)
Honourable Mention: Nicole Regimbal (Supervisor: Shelby Riskin)
Category: Urban Ecology
Best Poster: Jacqueline McLean (Supervisor: Shelby Riskin)
Honourable Mention: Sarah Eid (Supervisor: Marie-Josee Fortin)
Category: Ecological Interactions
Best Poster: Marcus Forbes-Green (Supervisor: Helene Cyr)
Honourable Mention: Madeleine Milne (Supervisor: Chelsea Rochman)
Category: From Genotype to Phenotype
Best Poster: Mila Gorchkova (Supervisor: Marla Sokolowski)
Honourable Mention: Alexander MacKenzie (Supervisor: Jacqueline Sztepanacz)
Category: Evolution & Environment
Best Poster: Alice DesRoches (Supervisors: Art Weis)
Honourable Mention: Rebekah Jolicoeur Alfaro (Supervisor: Helen Rodd)
A special thank you to our panel of judges this year: Garth Covernton (Rochman Lab), Prof. Asher Cutter, Prof. Marie-Josee Fortin, Tiziana A. Gelmi Candusso (Fortin), Prof. Luke Mahler, Prof. Nicole Mideo, Prof. Caroline Parins-Fukuchi, Prof. Chelsea Rochman, Prof. Stephen Wright, Linyi Zhang (Weis & Wright Labs).
2021 EEB Undergraduate Research Fair
See the Program Guide for the 2021 EEB Undergraduate Research Fair. Congratulations to the winners of the Corey A. Goldman Prize for Best Research Posters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology!
Category: Global Change, Organisms & Ecosystems
Best Poster: Natasha Djuric (Supervisor: Shelby Riskin)
Honourable Mention: Jacy Newfeld (Supervisor: Jonathan Ruppert)
Category: Ecological Interactions
Best Poster: Teagan Netten (Supervisor: Njal Rollinson)
Honourable Mention: Chantelle Lam (Supervisor: Helen Rodd)
Category: Genetics, Evolution & Environment
Best Poster: Sarah Ravoth (Supervisor: Art Weis)
Honourable Mention: Jameson Kunkel (Supervisor: Art Weis)
Category: Biodiversity & Morphology
Best Poster: Zifang Xiong (Supervisor: Luke Mahler)
Honourable Mention: Sophia Fan (Supervisor: Sebastian Kvist)
Category: Conservation & Management
Best Poster: Claudia Lacroix (Supervisors: Njal Rollinson & Marie-Josée Fortin)
Honourable Mention: Dorsa Nouri Parto (Supervisor: Nicole Mideo)
A special thank you to our panel of judges this year: Megan Bontrager (Stinchcombe Lab), Adriana Bravo, Leah Chibwe (Rochman Lab), Tiziana A. Gelmi Candusso (Fortin Lab), Rafaela F. Gutierrez (Rochman Lab), Katja Kasimatis (Rowe & Cutter Labs), Sebastian Kvist, Nicole Mideo, Rosalind Murray (Rowe Lab), and Matt Osmond.
2020 EEB Undergraduate Research Fair
See the Program Guide for the 2020 EEB Undergraduate Research Fair. Congratulations to the winners of the Corey A. Goldman Prize for Best Research Posters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology!
Category: Global change & organisms
Best Poster: Mariel Terebiznik (Mahler Lab)
Honourable mention: Paula Pietraszkiewicz (Wright Lab)
Category: Global change and ecosystems
Best Poster: Hayley McIlwraith (Rochman Lab)
Honourable mention: Phaedra Otwey (Fortin Lab)
Category: Ecological Interactions
Best Poster: Zoe Parshuram (Frederickson Lab)
Honourable mention: Sydney Gram (Moncalvo Lab)
Category: Genetics, Evolution, and Environment
Best Poster: Amanda Peake (Wright Lab)
Honourable mentions (tie): Youngseo (Clara) Jeong (Agrawal Lab) and Micha Sibolibane (Weis Lab)
Category: Evolution of Biodiversity and Morphology
Best Poster: Milly Hong (Claramunt Lab)
Honourable mention: Sebastian Scott (Evans Lab)
This year’s panel of judges were: Prof. Adriana Bravo, Andrew Chin (Fortin Lab), Megan Greischar (Mideo Lab), Karl Grieshop (Agrawal Lab), Ludovic Hermabessiere (Rochman Lab), Prof. Don Jackson, Katja Kasimatis (Cutter Lab), Anna O’Brien (Frederickson & Rochman Labs), Prof. Locke Rowe, and Santiago Sanchez-Ramirez (Cutter Lab).